Gary Edgerton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3047188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Edgerton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Edgerton |
| SIGNATURE | EDGERTON G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goucher College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5671-0456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Netflix, Spanish television, and La casa de papel
This institutional-industrial analysis evaluates how Netflix's post-2016 rebranding efforts resulted in its ongoing transition from a centrally-managed multinational corporation, based mainly in Silicon Valley, to a more decentralised transnational operation with multiple interconnected headquarters worldwide. Utilising a blended macro-micro critical perspective, Netflix's October 2015 debut in Spain is examined as an inflection point for this su…
Years of “First Frame” Fundamentals
Chronicler of the “American Problem”
Kevin Willmott’s journey as an independent filmmaker is an improbable success story. He was born on the 31 August 1958 in Junction City, Kansas, a small city of a little more than 20,000 residents some ninety miles west of the university town of Lawrence and 125 miles from Kansas City, Missouri. He earned his BA in drama from Marymount College in nearby Salina, then an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University. Willmott is a multi-hyphenat…
Character Actor as Shapeshifter
This article contains an in-depth and wide-ranging interview with Doug Jones on his improbable and singular career that currently spans more than 160 credits over 33 years and counting. He has brought to life a wide array of one-of-a-kind screen characters, creatures and monsters, animal/fish/man hybrids, and aliens from outer space. Over his three-decade career, Jones's standing in the entertainment business has risen from initially being consid…
The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Bowling Green State University
An Interview with Martin Sheen
This article presents an interview with Martin Sheen conducted in New Orleans on April 1, 2015, by Journal of Popular Film & Television editors Michael T. Marsden and Gary R. Edgerton
American Film Exhibition and an Analysis of the Motion Picture Industry's Market Structure 1963-1980
This study looks at how the movie industry organisation functioned between the late ‘40s and 1983 when it was originally published. It describes the changing role of domestic exhibition through this time and analyses the wider film industry to provide a model of the exhibition structure in relation to production, distribution and outside factors. It addresses the growing issues of the cable and video markets as competition to the film exhibition …
Introduction
10.1080/01956051.2012.654089-F0001 Jeopardy! (syndicated) TV show, 1984–2010. Shown: studio set with host Alex Trebek and contestants. Photo courtesy of King World Productions/Photofest. (Color fig
The Sopranos by Dana Polan
Mad Men Unbuttoned
Introduction
Deadwood (HBO) Season 3, 2006. Shown: Brent Sexton. Photo courtesy of Photofest. (color figure available online) For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic
An Introduction to “Parties and Celebrations in American Culture”
Thinking Outside the Box
While television genre was seen as static in the scholarship of the 1980s, Thinking Outside the Box explores the malleable and reflective nature of various TV programs. The book begins with a historical and theoretical overview of television genres and examines their influences on a national popular culture. The authors analyze less-studied genres such as cartoons, soap operas, and talk shows, locating their place and critical importance in Ameri…
The Columbia history of American television
The Teacher-Scholar in Film and Television
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGary R. EdgertonGARY R. EDGERTON is professor and chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University. Besides co-editing the Journal of Popular Film and Television, he has published widely on the relationship between media, history, and culture. His most recent books are Ken Burns's America (Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001) and Television Histories: Shaping Collective…
Television Histories
Television Histories argues that television functions as one of culture's primary historians. The main goal of this anthology is better to understand this role, which is shaped by the technical and stylistic features of the medium, the service and/or commercial imperatives of the broadcasting industry, and a shared preoccupation between producers and audiences to create a “useable past” that will illuminate present and future. The first section o…
Ken Burns’s America
This is the first book-length study to critically examine the work of Ken Burns, the innovative producer-director as a television auteur, a pivotal programming influence within the industry, and a popular historian who portrays a uniquely personal and compelling version of the country's past for tens of millions of viewers nationwide. Ken Burns's America has a three-fold agenda: First it looks at the ideas and individuals that have influenced Bur…
The Germans Wore Gray, You Wore Blue”
Converting Casablanca to color was undoubtedly the last straw for most anti-colorizers. The colorization controversy began in the spring of 1985 when Frank Capra went public with his apparently strong objections over the colorizing of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) by Colorization, Inc., of Toronto, Canada. The roots of the impending hostilities actually reach back to early 1981 when the executive board of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) began…
Redesigning Pocahontas
(1996). Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the “White Man's Indian,” and the Marketing of Dreams. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 24, Walt Disney, pp. 90-98
Quelling the “Oxygen of Publicity
Ken Burns—A Conversation with Public Television's Resident Historian
‘A Breed Apart’
Worth reading
An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. John Storey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 238 pages. $14.95. ISBN 0–8203–1592–5. Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. Jeffrey Ringer (Ed.). New York: New York University Press, 1994. 348 pages. $12.95. ISBN 0–8147–7441–5. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Ray Jackendoff. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 256 pages. $25.…
Worth reading
Watergate in American Memory. How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. Michael Schudson. New York: Basic Books, 1992. 282 pages. $24.00. ISBN 0–465–09084–2. The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex. Carol Tavris. New York: Simon and Schuster (Touchstone), 1993. 398 pages. $13.00. ISBN 0–671–79749–2. Messages, Meanings and Culture: Approaches to Communication Criticism. Malcolm O. S…
Ethical Issues in Popular Film and Television
Netflix, Spanish television, and La casa de papel
This institutional-industrial analysis evaluates how Netflix's post-2016 rebranding efforts resulted in its ongoing transition from a centrally-managed multinational corporation, based mainly in Silicon Valley, to a more decentralised transnational operation with multiple interconnected headquarters worldwide. Utilising a blended macro-micro critical perspective, Netflix's October 2015 debut in Spain is examined as an inflection point for this su…
The Germans Wore Gray, You Wore Blue”
Converting Casablanca to color was undoubtedly the last straw for most anti-colorizers. The colorization controversy began in the spring of 1985 when Frank Capra went public with his apparently strong objections over the colorizing of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) by Colorization, Inc., of Toronto, Canada. The roots of the impending hostilities actually reach back to early 1981 when the executive board of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) began…
Redesigning Pocahontas
(1996). Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the “White Man's Indian,” and the Marketing of Dreams. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 24, Walt Disney, pp. 90-98
Quelling the “Oxygen of Publicity
The Teacher-Scholar in Film and Television
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGary R. EdgertonGARY R. EDGERTON is professor and chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University. Besides co-editing the Journal of Popular Film and Television, he has published widely on the relationship between media, history, and culture. His most recent books are Ken Burns's America (Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001) and Television Histories: Shaping Collective…
High Concept Small Screen
Gary Edgerton's contribution to "Hilmes, Michele. Connections: A Broadcast History Reader. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003
The Multiplex
The influence of the paramount decision on network television in America
At the 1972 National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Chicago, the assembled gathering was surprised to receive a mailed greeting from their sometimes adversary, President Richard Nixon, which claimed, "In no other country does the broadcaster have more freedom than in the United States, and I emphasize that my Administration is dedicated to preserving that heritage." Four days later, however, the Justice Department filed against NBC, CB…
Wings
The Transformation of Art and Culture in America During the Communication Revolution
Revisiting the Recordings of Wars Past
Gary Edgerton's contribtution to "Studlar, Gaylyn, David Desser, and John Huston. Reflections in a Male Eye: John Huston and the American Experience. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993
Introduction
Introduction Clio Beckons us to the Looking Glass
High Concept Small Screen
Gary Edgerton's contribution to "Hilmes, Michele. Connections: A Broadcast History Reader. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003
The Murrow Legend as Metaphor
Worth reading
Watergate in American Memory. How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past. Michael Schudson. New York: Basic Books, 1992. 282 pages. $24.00. ISBN 0–465–09084–2. The Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex. Carol Tavris. New York: Simon and Schuster (Touchstone), 1993. 398 pages. $13.00. ISBN 0–671–79749–2. Messages, Meanings and Culture: Approaches to Communication Criticism. Malcolm O. S…
Ethical Issues in Popular Film and Television
Ken Burns's America
‘A Breed Apart’
Worth reading
An Introductory Guide to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. John Storey. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993. 238 pages. $14.95. ISBN 0–8203–1592–5. Queer Words, Queer Images: Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. Jeffrey Ringer (Ed.). New York: New York University Press, 1994. 348 pages. $12.95. ISBN 0–8147–7441–5. Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature. Ray Jackendoff. New York: Basic Books, 1994. 256 pages. $25.…
Ken Burns—A Conversation with Public Television's Resident Historian
Redesigning Pocahontas
(1996). Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the “White Man's Indian,” and the Marketing of Dreams. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 24, Walt Disney, pp. 90-98
Quelling the “Oxygen of Publicity
The Germans Wore Gray, You Wore Blue”
Converting Casablanca to color was undoubtedly the last straw for most anti-colorizers. The colorization controversy began in the spring of 1985 when Frank Capra went public with his apparently strong objections over the colorizing of It's a Wonderful Life (1946) by Colorization, Inc., of Toronto, Canada. The roots of the impending hostilities actually reach back to early 1981 when the executive board of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) began…
Ken Burns’s America
This is the first book-length study to critically examine the work of Ken Burns, the innovative producer-director as a television auteur, a pivotal programming influence within the industry, and a popular historian who portrays a uniquely personal and compelling version of the country's past for tens of millions of viewers nationwide. Ken Burns's America has a three-fold agenda: First it looks at the ideas and individuals that have influenced Bur…
The Teacher-Scholar in Film and Television
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGary R. EdgertonGARY R. EDGERTON is professor and chair of the Communication and Theatre Arts Department at Old Dominion University. Besides co-editing the Journal of Popular Film and Television, he has published widely on the relationship between media, history, and culture. His most recent books are Ken Burns's America (Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001) and Television Histories: Shaping Collective…
Television Histories
Television Histories argues that television functions as one of culture's primary historians. The main goal of this anthology is better to understand this role, which is shaped by the technical and stylistic features of the medium, the service and/or commercial imperatives of the broadcasting industry, and a shared preoccupation between producers and audiences to create a “useable past” that will illuminate present and future. The first section o…
The Columbia history of American television
Thinking Outside the Box
While television genre was seen as static in the scholarship of the 1980s, Thinking Outside the Box explores the malleable and reflective nature of various TV programs. The book begins with a historical and theoretical overview of television genres and examines their influences on a national popular culture. The authors analyze less-studied genres such as cartoons, soap operas, and talk shows, locating their place and critical importance in Ameri…
An Introduction to “Parties and Celebrations in American Culture”
The Sopranos by Dana Polan
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